Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 5

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

Star Trek: Year Five, Issue 5 is the fifth issue in the Star Trek: Year Five miniseries, written by Jody Houser, with art by Silvia Califano. Published by IDW Publishing, it was released in August 2019.

Summary

Solicitation blurb: During an investigation of a long-dead world, the crew of the Enterprise uncovers a mysterious device that at first appears to be a universal translator. But as Uhura investigates this strange new device, she'll quickly discover there’s more than meets the eye about the Truth Artifact!

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Background information

Creators

Writer:
- Jody Houser
- Jackson Lanzing (showrunner)
- Collin Kelly (showrunner)
Artists:
- Silvia Califano (interior art)
- Thomas Deer (color art)
- Neil Uyetake (letter art)
- Stephen Thompson (cover A)
- J.J. Lendl (retail incentive cover)
Editors:
- Chase Marotz
- Anni Perheentupa (assistant editor)
- Denton J. Tipton (group editor)
Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry
Special thanks to Risa Kessler, Marian Cordry and John Van Citters at CBS Consumer Products.

Characters

Canon characters listed below are linked to the main article about them. Non-canon characters are not linked, but those that recurred, appearing or being mentioned in more than one story, are defined further in IDW TOS characters.

Regular and recurring characters

James T. Kirk (β): Captain of the USS Enterprise
Spock (β): Enterprise XO/Chief science officer
Leonard McCoy (β): Enterprise Chief Medical Officer.
Montgomery Scott (β): Enterprise Chief Engineer.
Hikaru Sulu (β): Enterprise helmsman.
Uhura (β): Enterprise communications officer.
Pavel Chekov (β): Enterprise Navigator.

Cover gallery

External link

"Year Five, Issue 5" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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